Wednesday Weekly 07 June 2017

Keynote I

The abstract of Bryan Turner's public keynote on "One or Many Modernities? Towards a Macro Sociology of Secularization" (18 June, 6 p.m., Bibliotheca Albertina) to inaugurate our Workshop on "Muslim Secularities" is now online.

Keynote II

To conclude the first day of the workshop, Neguin Yavari will deliver a second public keynote on "Politics Made in the Medieval Islamic World" (19 June, 6:30 p.m., Strohsackpassage, Room 5.55), the abstract is now online as well.

CfP: Sociology of Religion

The VIth Open Conference of the Section on Sociology of Religion of the German Sociological Association (7th – 9th December 2017, Rastatt, Germany) calls for papers. Research themes may concern institutional conditions and organisational forms of religious practice, religious knowledge and beliefs, the configuration of power relations in the religious field, religious gender relations, processes of professionalisation or the diversification of religiosity towards popular religion and spiritualisation, religious movements, emotions and ritual forms or religious biographies, the negotiation of religious practices and identities in migration contexts or the re-presentation of religiosity in the public sphere.

The 2017 annual conference of the Law & Anthropology Department will be devoted to a number of cases of accommodation of minority practices (cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise) under state law. The focus is on the analysis of the pitfalls and successes of such accommodative practices. If you wish to participate please contact Ute Gradmann.

Research Fellowships

The Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe" invites applications for Research Fellowships for periods of 3 to 6 months during the academic year October 2018 - September 2019.